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Gooseneck barnacles, bragging rights
Fly to Vancouver. Catch a live-aboard from there.
Year round
Nakwakto Rapids, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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By Stuart Westmorland (Adapted from "passport to diving the world")
This site is listed in the Guiness World Book of Records for "Fastest currents recorded in any navigable waterway."
Not for the faint-hearted, this site is listed in the Guiness World Book of Records for "Fastest currents recorded in any navigable waterway." In a remote area of British Columbia the big attraction - besides bragging rights - is seeing amazing prolific gooseneck barnacles in massive clumps down to 30m. Oxygenated by the extreme currents, this normally inter-tidal species thrives at depths seen nowhere else. Vibrant scarlet, neon red lining, and pearl-coloured shells are a sight to behold. Timing is everything on this dive, usually limited to 25 minutes unless there is an unusually long slack tide. Stunning invertebrate life covers every square centimetre from the surface down to well past 30m.
(Ok enough with the stories, I'm itchin' for a dive)